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We Are Watching Eliza Bright Paperback – January 4, 2022

by A.E. Osworth (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
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Named a Best Book of 2021 by NPR • Harper’s Bazaar • CrimeReads • Electric Literature • Autostraddle

In this thrilling story of survival and anger, a woman has her whole life turned upside down after speaking out against workplace hostility–and inadvertently becomes the leader of a cultural movement.

Eliza Bright was living the dream as an elite video game coder at Fancy Dog Games when her private life suddenly became public. But is Eliza Bright a brilliant, self-taught coder bravely calling out the toxic masculinity and chauvinism that pervades her workplace and industry? Or, is Eliza Bright a woman who needs to be destroyed to protect "the sanctity of gaming culture"? It depends on who you ask...

 

When Eliza reports an incident of workplace harassment that is quickly dismissed, she's forced to take her frustrations to a journalist who blasts her story across the Internet. She's fired and doxxed, and becomes a rallying figure for women across America. But she's also enraged the beast that is male gamers on 4Chan and Reddit, whose collective, unreliable voice narrates our story. Soon Eliza is in the cross-hairs of the gaming community, threatened and stalked as they monitor her every move online and across New York City.

 

As the violent power of an angry male collective descends upon everyone in Eliza's life, it becomes increasingly difficult to know who to trust, even when she's eventually taken in and protected by an under-the-radar Collective known as the Sixsterhood. The violence moves from cyberspace to the real world, as a vicious male super-fan known only as The Inspectre is determined to exact his revenge on behalf of men everywhere. We watch alongside the Sixsterhood and subreddit incels as this dramatic cat-and-mouse game plays out to reach its violent and inevitable conclusion.

 

This is an extraordinary, unputdownable novel that explores the dark recesses of the Internet and male rage, and the fragile line between the online world and real life. It's a thrilling story of female resilience and survival, packed with a powerful feminist message.

 
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"We Are Watching Eliza Bright is a novel that takes on our techy zeitgeist at its silicon core. It's is a novel vital for our time. Fun and smart, but always deeply insightful."―Tiphanie Yanique, author of Land of Love and Drowning

"Unputdownable."―Harper's Bazaar

"A.E. Osworth takes readers on heck of a ride... By the time you’re done reading, you will question everything you think you know."―NPR

“The book I most fervently devoured this year.”―Emily VanDerWerff, Vox

“This book is unflinching in its observations about fan culture and difficult to put down, thanks to some high-action moments of conflict and violence—both real and pixelated—that really stick with you. It’s all packaged in Osworth’s exceedingly enjoyable prose and their smart, funny, diverse, flawed cast of characters.”―Kate Gorton, Autostraddle

About the Author

A.E. Osworth is Part-Time Faculty at The New School, where they teach digital storytelling to undergraduates. They've spent eight years writing all over the internet, including a stint as Geekery Editor for Autostraddle. Their work has also been published in Quartz, Mashable, Electric Literature, Guernica and Paper Darts, among others.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Grand Central Publishing (January 4, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1538717646
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1538717646
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.3 x 2 x 7.95 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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4.4 out of 5 stars
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Impactful story about the dangerous misogyny in online gaming culture
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Impactful story about the dangerous misogyny in online gaming culture
We are Watching Eliza Bright by A.E. Osworth is the story of a female video game coder trying to navigate her way in an extremely misogynistic culture dominated by male incels. The book is told in first person plural starting with the group of angry incels and then subsequently switching back and forth with The Sixsterhood, an artistic co-op that shelters in a secure warehouse.It's a violent game of cat-and-mouse that begins with Eliza being the victim of sexual harassment at the hands of her male coworkers. The game quickly spirals into stalking and death and rape threats causing a doxxed Eliza to hide underground with The Sixsterhood. Osworth's narrative was inspired by GamerGate, which began in 2014 when several women in the video game industry were targeted by vitriolic trolls. I read in an interview with Refinery29 that Osworth was Geekery editor at Autostraddle during that time so they were there when the online gaming culture was laid siege by the hateful campaign.I was worried I wouldn't be able to get into this story due to my lack of gaming knowledge (which is comprised of occasionally taking out my 33-year-old Nintendo console to play Ghosts and Goblins with my 6-year-old 🙂). There was some gaming verbage but it didn't detract from the story. Once I got over my initial trepidation I was hooked. This story made me angry for all of the women trying to do something they love while having to wade through a pool of toxic masculinity; but it also made me hopeful for future female gamers because Osworth is giving those gamers a voice through their impactful storytelling.🚨TW/CW: sexual harassment, death & rape threats, stalking, animal abuse, suicide, doxxingThis 5-star read's pub date was yesterday and I highly recommend getting a copy! A.E. Osworth has landed on my list of auto-buy authors and I can't wait to see what they publish next!Thank you to Novel Suspects for a review copy.
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Tucker Lieberman
5.0 out of 5 stars I did not expect this
Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2023
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Colorful rants and social commentary and mostly just explosively different.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Really pretty darn good
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2024
I enjoyed this and I wasn't sure I would. The only thing that distracted me from the story was that the book is set in New York, but it often reads like the author is absolutely not from the U.S. (though I may be wrong about this). It's not a huge deal, but it did sometimes cause a stutter in my reading.
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Sarah
4.0 out of 5 stars A fictional book based on #GamerGate
Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2021
Enjoyed this - which is weird to say since it also made me so very angry.

This is a cat and mouse suspense novel inspired by the events of #GamerGate that took place a few years back. It couldn’t be more relevant with everything that’s going on at Blizzard right now, which I read about while also wanting to puke, since there were members of those teams that spoke out against #GamerGate.

For those not familiar, women who worked in the gaming industry have stepped forward with claims of rampant sexual harassment within their industry. They proceeded to be doxxed and harassed by the gamer community for ruining games. Not all gamers are like this (including myself within the gamer community)- but it’s scary how many members of the community have no issue actively speaking out against progressivism in games.

Anyway, for this book we have Eliza Bright, fresh and new to the development team, where she is the only woman. She immediately experiences fairly toxic sexual harassment from her coworkers, and is then told by her boss it’s “just a joke” and “no big deal” and that she was being too emotional about it and she should have just had a Conversation with her coworkers about their sexual harassment, instead of bringing it to the CEO since that makes her look bad. After being dismissed by her boss, she decides to leak the story to the local news, thereby violating the terms of an NDA she signed upon accepting her promotion. One thing leads to another, Eliza is doxxed, and someone in the city begins stalking her.

I think this was very cleverly written. It’s told in first person plural (“We”). The We in this instance is the gamer, Reddit, Twitter community. They are unreliable - since they are not actually witnessing everything happening, but being forced to imagine some of what happens beyond closed doors. I could see how that might be a frustration for some, but I thought it was brilliant, and did an effective job of putting you in the mind of the community. There are times when other voices peek through toxicity of what could be considered the majority that brought layers to the story.

The harassment of Eliza continues to escalate until she is essentially forced into hiding and decides she must take matters into her own hands. This part dragged a bit for me as I think it just slowed down the pacing of a book that otherwise moves at breakneck speeds.

I think in the wrong hands this story could have been a disaster and instead was expertly handled. Highly recommend for anyone who games (though be warned you will need a Power Anger Community Circle by the end of it.)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Impactful story about the dangerous misogyny in online gaming culture
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2021
We are Watching Eliza Bright by A.E. Osworth is the story of a female video game coder trying to navigate her way in an extremely misogynistic culture dominated by male incels. The book is told in first person plural starting with the group of angry incels and then subsequently switching back and forth with The Sixsterhood, an artistic co-op that shelters in a secure warehouse.

It's a violent game of cat-and-mouse that begins with Eliza being the victim of sexual harassment at the hands of her male coworkers. The game quickly spirals into stalking and death and rape threats causing a doxxed Eliza to hide underground with The Sixsterhood. Osworth's narrative was inspired by GamerGate, which began in 2014 when several women in the video game industry were targeted by vitriolic trolls. I read in an interview with Refinery29 that Osworth was Geekery editor at Autostraddle during that time so they were there when the online gaming culture was laid siege by the hateful campaign.

I was worried I wouldn't be able to get into this story due to my lack of gaming knowledge (which is comprised of occasionally taking out my 33-year-old Nintendo console to play Ghosts and Goblins with my 6-year-old 🙂). There was some gaming verbage but it didn't detract from the story. Once I got over my initial trepidation I was hooked. This story made me angry for all of the women trying to do something they love while having to wade through a pool of toxic masculinity; but it also made me hopeful for future female gamers because Osworth is giving those gamers a voice through their impactful storytelling.

🚨TW/CW: sexual harassment, death & rape threats, stalking, animal abuse, suicide, doxxing

This 5-star read's pub date was yesterday and I highly recommend getting a copy! A.E. Osworth has landed on my list of auto-buy authors and I can't wait to see what they publish next!

Thank you to Novel Suspects for a review copy.
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mwilcox38
5.0 out of 5 stars Impactful story about the dangerous misogyny in online gaming culture
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2021
We are Watching Eliza Bright by A.E. Osworth is the story of a female video game coder trying to navigate her way in an extremely misogynistic culture dominated by male incels. The book is told in first person plural starting with the group of angry incels and then subsequently switching back and forth with The Sixsterhood, an artistic co-op that shelters in a secure warehouse.

It's a violent game of cat-and-mouse that begins with Eliza being the victim of sexual harassment at the hands of her male coworkers. The game quickly spirals into stalking and death and rape threats causing a doxxed Eliza to hide underground with The Sixsterhood. Osworth's narrative was inspired by GamerGate, which began in 2014 when several women in the video game industry were targeted by vitriolic trolls. I read in an interview with Refinery29 that Osworth was Geekery editor at Autostraddle during that time so they were there when the online gaming culture was laid siege by the hateful campaign.

I was worried I wouldn't be able to get into this story due to my lack of gaming knowledge (which is comprised of occasionally taking out my 33-year-old Nintendo console to play Ghosts and Goblins with my 6-year-old 🙂). There was some gaming verbage but it didn't detract from the story. Once I got over my initial trepidation I was hooked. This story made me angry for all of the women trying to do something they love while having to wade through a pool of toxic masculinity; but it also made me hopeful for future female gamers because Osworth is giving those gamers a voice through their impactful storytelling.

🚨TW/CW: sexual harassment, death & rape threats, stalking, animal abuse, suicide, doxxing

This 5-star read's pub date was yesterday and I highly recommend getting a copy! A.E. Osworth has landed on my list of auto-buy authors and I can't wait to see what they publish next!

Thank you to Novel Suspects for a review copy.
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Kari G.
3.0 out of 5 stars Great story, very unlikeable characters
Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2022
Eliza Bright landed her dream programming job at Fancy Dog Games. When two fellow programmers make a sexist joke, events quickly spiral out of control to a shocking and violent climax.

WHAT I LIKED: This book is a stark reminder of how vulnerable we make ourselves in the online world, with little thought for how quickly things can bleed over into our real lives. It’s terrifying to contemplate. The writing style was original and compelling. So I’m torn between how much I liked the overall story and what I didn’t like.

WHAT I DIDN’T LIKE: Not one character was likeable: not the protagonist, not the antagonists, not the myriad peripheral characters. I get that we were all supposed to sympathize with Eliza and seethe against the “boys’ club” of the gaming world. I mean, what happened to her was horrific, but she, along with everyone else, just made terrible choices. All those ruined lives because three people (Eliza and the two men on her team) couldn’t find a way to work together in a mutually respectful way.
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Worthing Reader
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books I've ever read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 20, 2023
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This book feels relevant and important but it's also a really good story told in an interesting style. I genuinely believe everyone should read it.
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Pascal K.
3.0 out of 5 stars The book is really unconventional
Reviewed in Germany on May 22, 2023
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The book is about discrimination in the video game industry. The topic is interesting but the writing style is somewhat strange. It's written from the perspective of internet users, in the "we" form with highly unreliable narration and frequent presentation of different alternative situations that might have happened. This seems flavorful for the topic but I found it a hassle to read.
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